AMD rushed out a new beta version of its Catalyst driver suite, which addresses the issue of improper performance scaling on the new 3DMark, on CrossFire multi-GPU setups. The new Catalyst 13.2 Beta 5 adds a CrossFire profile for 3DMark v1.00 launched on Monday (04/02). Along the way, it also introduced a couple of performance improvements in some highly specific scenarios. For systems running Far Cry 3 at 2560 x 1600 pixels, with 8x AA, performance could go up by 10 percent. With a refined profile, the driver could dole out up to 40 percent higher performance in Crysis 3, on CrossFire setups.

Do not bother with assassin's creed 3 game, this was released in pre-alpha stage as final product and ubisoft did not announce anything about fixing the game, they only said "devs are aware" and they said it 3 months ago.

by: spectatorxDo not bother with assassin's creed 3 game, this was released in pre-alpha stage as final product and ubisoft did not announce anything about fixing the game, they only said "devs are aware" and they said it 3 months ago.

by: spectatorxDo not bother with assassin's creed 3 game, this was released in pre-alpha stage as final product and ubisoft did not announce anything about fixing the game, they only said "devs are aware" and they said it 3 months ago.

by: spectatorxDo not bother with assassin's creed 3 game, this was released in pre-alpha stage as final product and ubisoft did not announce anything about fixing the game, they only said "devs are aware" and they said it 3 months ago.

It's almost mind boggling. The game even uses multiple threads. It was eating 70% of my 8350 @ 4.7 GHZ and I'm still getting only 29-30 fps at worst, usually low 30s, in boston harbor!!!!! :banghead: :nutkick:

Lately, I just use driver fusion and only install the driver. Forget CCC and that other useless stuff.
I use radeon pro (get latest beta) for my in game settings. It's a nifty little tool. I can even use dynamic vsync :P

Guess they've messed up somewhere. FC3 still no go, 3d mark still locks up the system. I get the feeling that they've messed up the portion regarding x79 and cross/tri/quad fire with 79xx series. ( which produces lockups in tons of games, then they actually acknowledged the problem, and fixed it in 13.1 I believe, maybe something needs tweaking again).

Guess they've messed up somewhere. FC3 still no go, 3d mark still locks up the system. I get the feeling that they've messed up the portion regarding x79 and cross/tri/quad fire with 79xx series. ( which produces lockups in tons of games, then they actually acknowledged the problem, and fixed it in 13.1 I believe, maybe something needs tweaking again).

X79 and dual 7-series here, no issue to report. I don't have FC3 installed, however. You can find a tonne of my benchmarks in 3DMark in the pertinent thread, both single and dual card. I suspect some other issue, either hardware or software, might be afoot here.

by: AkrianOk. Did some digging.
FC3 still won't work. Buuut I found the reason for 3d mark's behavior: HPET was off via bios. And apparently unlike 11, this one relies heavily on it.

How old is your psu? Because i could see that your psu is more than capable of handling all of that load but maybe your psu is giving up. have you tried running prime95 and furmark at the same time? see if it crashes?

by: SlackerHow old is your psu? Because i could see that your psu is more than capable of handling all of that load but maybe your psu is giving up. have you tried running prime95 and furmark at the same time? see if it crashes?

Couple of years old. Now it's only FC3 =) every other game and test runs fine ( I've found my issue with 3d mark too). FC3 just errors out after the logo. I've reverted back to 13.1 it works there, so it's a driver issue